Have you ever tried to overlap more than one plot, only to find that you had to fiddle with a few times before it looked right? Perhaps this is because you aren't... read more >>

Here's a question that was recently posed at MathWorks. I'm trying to invoke a function handle. It either returns 0 or 1 output arguments. If it returns an output ... read more >>

Over the years, there have been lots of questions about when MATLAB recognizes files on the path. Today I'm going to talk about the case where a user generates or updates MATLAB code,... read more >>

Walter Roberson, frequent contributor to the MATLAB newsgroup, posed the following question to me to use as the starter idea of a blog. Q: Suppose there is a... read more >>

How often I have heard this!?! It turns out there are a bunch of reasons why you might not get the answer you expect when performing an optimization task. These... read more >>

I recently heard Greg Wilson speak about a topic dear to him, Beautiful Code. He and Andy Oran edited a book on this topic in which programmers explain their thought processes. The... read more >>

In an earlier post I discussed the issue of floating point accuracy in calculations. I have another example to share today that has been lurking in the Mapping Toolbox... read more >>

Sometimes I am asked questions like "why did you introduce function xyz into MATLAB? And sometimes I have a compelling answer, even for something that looks simple on the surface. ... read more >>

At The MathWorks, we continue to explore ways to ease your programming learning curve and help you write better code. As such, we have been discussing how stringent to make... read more >>

Sometimes it's important to have code work in multiple releases of MATLAB, while still taking advantage of new features when they exist. In recent articles, I've talked about... read more >>