PlotEdit context-menu customization
A combination of Matlab and Java Robot commands to automate a certain animation can be used when we cannot access underlying GUI/graphics code.
Low risk of breaking in future versions
Tips for accelerating Matlab performance
My article on "Tips for Accelerating MATLAB Performance" was recently featured in the September 2017 Matlab newsletter digest.
Faster csvwrite/dlmwrite
The speed of the builtin csvwrite, dlmwrite functions can be improved dramatically.
Sending HTML emails from Matlab
Matlab's sendmail only sends simple text messages by default; a simple hack can cause it to send HTML-formatted messages.
Parsing XML strings
Matlab's xmlread function cannot process XML data directly, but this can easily be overcome.
Afterthoughts on implicit expansion
The new implicit expansion feature of Matlab R2016b can break user code in unexpected ways.
Speeding up Matlab-JDBC SQL queries
Fetching SQL ResultSet data from JDBC into Matlab can be made significantly faster.
Working with non-standard DPI displays
Matlab uses logical (scaled) pixel positions. With high-DPI displays, this might cause problems, but it is easy to retrieve the physical (unscaled) pixel values.
Aligning uicontrol contents
Matlab uicontrols can often be customized using plain HTML/CSS, without need for advanced Java.
Zero-testing performance
Subtle changes in the way that we test for zero/non-zero entries in Matlab can have a significant performance impact.