6:57

This week, in the first of a series of videos, my colleague Matt Tearle demonstrates how to read web pages with the webread function. In this application, he reads a random Wiki page and follows the… read more >>

4:09

Along with the examples in part one and part two of this series, another method I use to display the status of a long running script is a little utility I made that uses a function handle.
if… read more >>

5:21

Previously, I showed how you could use fprintf to display status updates of a long running script. Another technique I use is to capture these updates in a uitable, so I can then easily view the… read more >>

6:16

I have a number of scripts that take several hours to run and I like be able to track their progress. I use a few techniques to do this, including this first example, which just uses fprintf…. read more >>

5:42

Recently I have been using MATLAB tables a lot to store large heterogeneous datasets. In many cases, the rows contain information about files in a file system. As I need to access the files… read more >>

0:00

Using MATLAB in recent years on computationally intensive problems that take a long time to run, I notice that MATLAB does not always make use of all the cores on my machine. Also, sometimes I… read more >>

4:16

I have a number of scripts that I have been maintaining for many years. They are not in version control but I still want to make edits and be able to access the code in previous versions. So I use a… read more >>

1:43

In release 2014b there is a new preference that lets you set MATLAB’s initial working folder to be the last folder used in the previous MATLAB session. Here I show when it can be useful and… read more >>

1:46

We have made some changes to how videos play in the Blogs area, including a new video player. There are one or two features that I’d like to make you aware of including:

The player works on… read more >>

2:39

When editing code in the MATLAB editor, I often find that I’m interested in the use of one variable throughout the code. The keyboard shortcut Alt plus the Up or Down arrow keys lets me search… read more >>