Was looking into an m-lint warning telling me to:
Consider moving the toolbox function ‘VideoReader’ out of the loop for better performance.

Out of all the m-lint warnings I’ve seen, this one seemed a little silly to me. So I googled:
“consider moving toolbox function out of loop matlab”

At this point I came across the result:
http://blogs.mathworks.com/steve/2009/08/18/moving-toolbox-functions-into-matlab/

Steve starts off by discussing padarray which in my sleepiness I read as pddarray. Wondering what in the world this function is I click on the link to find out the link no longer functions. Seems a bit strange to me that Matlab is leaving these links broken. Or is the end result of this mess that they are fixing them, just slowly?

P.S. Regarding your travel into the future, by October 14 2013 has Matlab finally updated GUIs to the point where half of your blog is irrelevant? 🙂 That and some OO love/fixes might make be happier than documentation updates and an editor overhaul.

@Zain – I’m sorry you took my comment personally. It was certainly not my intention to point personal fingers. MathWorks has great engineers, and is a great product. I’m not just saying this to be nice, I really mean it. But in as large and complex a system as Matlab (with all its associated products, website and what-not), even the best abilities and intentions sometimes end up getting screwed-up. We are all human after all. At some point in time we are all bound to make mistakes (even Einstein made some; I certainly did).

In this particular case I think there was a series of errors: (1) the deliberate judgement call not to create server-side redirects for many webpages; (2) the fact that MathWorks did not post the information (plus workaround) in the release notes; (3) the fact that QA did not raise a release showstopper (or worse: maybe they did and were overruled); (4) the fact that over a month after the release this issue is still unfixed.

Luckily, MathWorks has a community of people (me, for instance), who love Matlab and are willing to go out of their normal way to point out such errors in a common interest to make a better product. And luckily again, MathWorks seems to be willing to listen to user feedback.

So the bottom line is that I still think this was a screw up, but it does not diminish my love for Matlab nor the respect that I feel for its engineers.

Ah, you looked up my previous life 🙂

Well, I just wanted to say that I took the comment on internal QA a little personal 🙂

We do work tirelessly on testing the software. Everything from the generation, file names, JavaScript to the compatibility with OS and platforms. I can’t speak to the current experience you are having though.

I am saddened that you are having a poor experience though.

@Zain – I do not believe that this is a temporary glitch. It has been this way for the past month, ever since the release. Moreover, it’s not a single isolated webpage but a whole bunch that I tested. Moreover, the response from product manager Wendy Fullam explicitly admits that server-side redirects were only placed for “a majority of reference pages, the release notes, and the installation guides“, and that “some pages have not been redirected for various reasons“. So this is not a bug but a deliberate product management decision, which makes my case all the more stronger.

(and BTW Zain, good luck in your new position!)

There was plenty of effort put in to avoid this exact issue, I’m surprised that it isn’t working but I’m sure it is just a glitch.