It took me a lot of work, but I managed to sneak an easter egg into MATLAB 2008a. It helps to know people who approve the final build that owe you a favor (we are even now, William!) No one has… read more >>

This is a simplified version of the first problem I ever attempted to solve in MATLAB. For my original problem, I was trying to figure out the probability of being on any square in the board game… read more >>

I am trying something new this week: the MATLAB Puzzler.
Rather than just work one of the Practical Examples directly, I am doing it in two parts. The first I will pose the MATLAB puzzler and say how… read more >>

This is the second video in this series, it shows you how to run a very simplistic optimization. For a simple problem like this one, the algorithm is more than sufficient to find a correct answer to… read more >>

A while back, I posted a video about how to place points randomly inside of an arbitrary polygon. [Click here] This video prompted a question about how to place points in a more systematic manner. If… read more >>

The distinction between MATLAB Basics and Advanced MATLAB is a somewhat arbitrary distinction. The heuristic I use is “If I knew it before I came to The MathWorks, it is basic.” It is as… read more >>

I normally only have two posts a week, but I needed to throw in this extra post to announce a new blog by my buddy Seth. Seth will be discussing Simulink every week. This week, he is discussing batch… read more >>

In the past we covered how to use UIGETFILE as an alternative to hardcoding the name of a file in your program. [click here] In this video, we will show how MATLAB can get a directory listing and use… read more >>

As with all the videos in this practical example series, the process of developing code is more important than the particular problem that is being solved. In this video, we will be covering topics… read more >>

It was about a year and a half ago when I posted about using the profiler to find bottlenecks in your MATLAB code [click here]. This week’s video covers two quick and easy ways of timing your… read more >>