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.
Undocumented feature
User-defined tab completions – take 2
Matlab has changed the mechanism that enables user-defined tab-completion of function inputs.
Matlab compilation quirks – take 2
A few hard-to-trace quirks with Matlab compiler outputs are explained.
GUI formatting using HTML
HTML formatting an be used to align and background-color text within Matlab uicontrols such as buttons, listboxes, uitables etc.
Additional license data
Additional meta-data about installed toolboxes can be retrieved in Matlab.
Quirks with parfor vs. for
Parallelizing loops with Matlab's parfor might generate unexpected results. Users beware!
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.
uigetfile/uiputfile customizations
A file-selector dialog window that includes an integrated preview panel is shown and explained.