Ancestry.com adds DNA genealogy to the mix...dare I peek?
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Blog: Ancestry.com announced plans Monday to add DNA digging to its mix of ancestral sleuthing tools.
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Before heading over to the Web 2.0 conference at the Palace Hotel in SF this morning, I couldn't resist doing some more digging into alternate user interfaces for news reading based on the NY Times keywords.  One thing I learned the hard way is that when you access the Times site from a script (not through a browser) if you try to read an article that's too old (not sure what the time limit is) it tries to redirect you to a login page (which is pretty pointless considering that there's no human being around to log in). I hit this problem yesterday, and then hit it again this morning, but couldn't remember what the problem was. So by writing it up this time I hope to remember.  No doubt some debunked hack journalist posing as a tech industry mogul will slander me for this, but the asshat asshole has no idea how blogging works, and who the fuck cares what he thinks anyway. "cheesecake"
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Plus: eBay outlines policy on racist language. [News.com Extra]
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Plus: Geneticist creates new life forms, legal problems. Read what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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By Jesse Leavenworth, The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Sep. 19--What a rip-off.   That's the short version of my experience with the prominent people-finding website ZabaSearch and its foremost sponsor, Intelius.
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GeneTree grows a database of ancestry resources by inviting researchers to share information.
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On his blog today, Mike Lively has posted about the work h's done to create a database extension for the popular unit testing software for PHP, PHPUnit.   For those that may not have read any of my previous postings on the subject the goal of this software is to extend the functionality of PHPUnit to allow using seed data to put a given database into a known state prior to executing each test. It also provides an easy mechanism to compare database contents with an expected dataset.   Mike has just completed the initial feature set for his project - more or less a port of DBUnit over to PHP. The post includes not only details about this initial release but also code that demonstrates its use. In his example, it's used to validate that a bank account has been created properly by comparng database information before and after the insert.
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Also: Feds slow in getting records on Web. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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The Internet is fertile ground for genealogy websites branching out to connect the dead and the living with a shared dream of drawing humanity's family tree.
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Those in the New York area might want to check out a new post Daniel Krook has concerning his talk he'll be giving on native XML databases at next week's New York PHP User Group meeting.   The presentation follows a mailing list thread and resulting blog post that generated a lot of interest and discussion on the topic. It should be a great talk for database administrators, application developers and content producers alike.   According to the summary of the talk, he'll be discussing what XML databases are good for and why you might choose them over a normal database. For more information on attending, check out the NYPHP User Group website.
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As genealogical societies and Web sites proliferate and DNA testing becomes more widely available, researching family roots has become a passion for many Americans.
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Plus: Are you having an identity crisis? [News.com Extra]
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Advances in genetic testing are placing strains on the principle of doctor-patient confidentiality, as doctors grapple with whether to tell a patient&#39;s relatives
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WASHINGTON - For less than $200 and a cheek-swiped cotton swab, amateur historians will soon be able to add DNA results to family tree Web sites.
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For less than $200 and a cheek-swiped cotton swab, amateur historians will soon be able to add DNA results to family tree Web sites.
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By The Associated Press  WASHINGTON - For less than $200 and a cheek-swiped cotton swab, amateur historians soon will be able to add DNA results to family tree Web sites.
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Stoyan Stefanov has posted a few suggestions that you should probably ask your host-to-be before taking the plunge, making the commitment and entrusting your life to them (well, at least your data).   know choosing a hosting company is not easy, mainly because of all affiliate sites that publish fake reviews selling the host. Just like most other things, it's pretty hard to find unbiased reviews. So here's a list of questions to ask your future host-to-be, hopefully if they say YES to all, they have a pretty good shot at being decent.   While he admits that there are non-technical questions that should be asked too, he offers up some of his suggested technical ones to help weed things out quickly. Several are more general types (cron jobs, parking domains) but others are more PHP-related (using php_value, changing php.inis). Check out the post for more suggestions.