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### Where can I find examples of good Mathematica programming practice?

I consider myself a pretty good Mathematica programmer, but I'm always looking out for ways to either improve my way of doing things in Mathematica, or to see if there's something nifty that I haven't ...
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### Is using undocumented functionality a Bad Idea™?

Mathematica has a lot of very useful undocumented features. For example a hash table, a built-in list of compilable functions, additional options to CurrentValue, ...
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### when is f@g not the same as f[g]?

I have always thought that f@g will give the same result as f[g] in all cases, and it is just a matter of style which one to use ...
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### How to keep Collect[] result in order?

For example, Collect[(1 + x + Cos[s] x^2)^3, x] gives the result ...
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### “Unflattening” a list

Imagine we have a list with some hierarchical structure: list = {{{2,3},{2,4}},{{{3,4}}},{{5,6},{7,8}}}; Which we then flatten to some level in order to process ...
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### Optimizing a Numerical Laplace Equation Solver

Laplace's Equation is an equation on a scalar in which, given the value of the scalar on the boundaries (the boundary conditions), one can determine the value of the scalar at any point in the region ...
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### Changing the inter-item spacing in Legends (version 9)

The new legending functionality in version 9 is much easier to use than the PlotLegends package and other bespoke ways of creating legends in earlier versions. ...
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### “Not a valid Filling specification” error

I have a function, which plots the given function array f. This is a part of the function: ...
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The goal is to assemble a SparseArray in an additive fashion. Let us assume we have a large List of indices (some will be ...
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So far I have read that some things are not supported in CDFs. Istvan-zachar mentioned very useful things in his post. Unfortunately he mentioned that MathLink operations, including J/Link and ...
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### Two-sided slider getting stuck

I'm implementing a two-sided slider to be able to set upper and lower bound in just one slider: The problem is that it can get stuck when both locators are at the far left: And I'm unable to ...