In this recent post to the Nodeable Blog, they suggest that the days of the typical LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) are numbered because of what many of the cloud services have to offer.

For the past 10 years, the LAMP stack has laid waste to proprietary software stacks. Yes, Microsoft has held onto gargantuan profits, but LAMP has become the foundation for leading web services, whether Google or Facebook or [Insert Big Web Brand Here]. LAMP is the future. Or was. That is, until cloud killed it, as Eucalyptus CEO (and former MySQL CEO) Marten Mickos posits in a great keynote from the Percona Live: MySQL Conference & Expo 2012.

In the keynote he pointed out that it's becoming less about the whole setup and more about combining technologies to get the results you need - less "stack" and more "linked technology" (and not always the same tech for every node). He pointed to the Amazon AWS service as a prime example of a platform that allows endless flexibility as to what software can be installed and how it can be used, all with a few clicks of a mouse.

The Ibuildings techPortal has started back up with their DPC Radio recordings from last year's Dutch PHP Conference with a recording of a keynote from Helgi, "First Class APIs".

APIs are commonly an afterthought, like a hot tub awkwardly attached to a house  - a shoehorned approach that produces a suboptimal app with scarce support that lacks documentation. In effect, APIs are the ugly stepchild of the Web.

He talks about why APIs are commonly an afterthought and some suggestions on how you can change that in your current and future applications. You can listen to this latest episode either by using the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or by subscribing to their feed. You can also see the slides over on Slideshare.

The Dutch PHP Conference has officially announced their final keynote speaker (finishing out the schedule) - Aral Balkan will be speaking on "The Art of the User Experience".

We believe the schedule already has a lot to offer the way it is, but we still had one annoying "to be announced" slot on the Friday morning: the opening keynote! With only three weeks to go we are proud to announce that the DPC will be kicked off by one of the most talented speakers out there: Aral Balkan!

He'll talk about making "beautiful, delightful and fun things" as a part of the experience your user has with your applications. If you haven't gotten your tickets yet, be sure to grab them now. There's only three weeks left until the event! Full tickets cost 695 Euro and the half-tickets (just conference day or just tutorial day) are 375 Euro.

If you weren't able to attend this year's PHP North West conference, you can get a little slice of it via this "live from the keynote" comments the folks at php|architect put together during Lorna Mitchell's "Teach a Man to Fish" keynote.

The wonderful PHP Northwest 2010 conference took place last weekend in Manchester, UK, and our Marco Tabini was present to keynote Lorna Jane Mitchell's keynote "Teach a man to fish." Here's the transcript from the event (powered by Blue Parabola's upcoming live-blogging system Broadr).

You can also find more about the session on it's Joind.in page (including a link to her slides.

The Zend Developer Zone has an update about the upcoming ZendCon conference coming in just two weeks.

ZendCon is now only two weeks away, and we've been hard at work in preparing for it. We've got a number of things in the works that we hope you are going to really enjoy!

Updates include new developments on the Unconference sesions, the creation of two new types of tickets - a First Day pass for $299 and a pass for just the UnCon/Expo Hall and opening Keynote. More information can be found on the registration website. There have also been two new keynote speakers added to the schedule - Andi Gutmans speaking on "PHP at the Heart of Mainstream IT" and Scott Baker's talk "A Series of Fortunate Events".

The Zend Developer Zone has posted two new updates about this year's Zend/PHP Conference - one dealing with a keynote speaker and the other a framework shootout.

ZendCon 2009 is less than 2 months away, and preparations are moving along swiftly! [...] The speaker list is jam packed with well known names in the industry, currently sitting at 45 speakers, and a few more to be added in the coming weeks.

This year's conference will feature a keynote given by Kirrily Robert of Metaweb Technologies titled "Standing out in the Crowd" and a new session has been added - a framework shootout with a panel of representatives for the Zend Framework, CakePHP, Symfony, Agavi and CodeIgniter frameworks.

On the ThinkPHP blog Thorsten Rinne has posted an announcement about the opening of the Call for Papers for this year's International PHP Conference.

The Call for Papers for the International PHP Conference 2009 - Spring Edition has just opened! For more details, click here. The conference will take place on May 25th, 26th and 27th in Germany's capital city. See you in Berlin!

The deadline for putting your paper/suggestion in is coming up soon - February 20th, 2009. The two suggested talk times are 45 minutes (ketnote) and 60 minutes (regular session). There will also be 6 different 90 minute workshops.

The folks over at php|architect have three great annoucnements about their upcoming php|tek 2009 conference - a keynote, the Hackathon and news for the late early-birds.

Here's a few more specifics:

• The newly announced keynote will be a talk from Andrei Zmievski (recently appointed Open Source Fellow at digg and will talk about PHP6
• The Hackathon has been officially announced in conjunction with the Unconference
• And, for those that thought they had missed out on the early-bird pricing for the event - listen up! They've extended the early-bird pricing out until February 28th!

You can get more information about the php|tek conference for 2009 (including registering to reserve your spot) on official conference website

In this recent post to his blog Zeev Suraski (of Zend) recounts his experience in attending a conference (one in Istanbul, Turkey) without actually being there.

Last Saturday, the first PHP-centric web conference has taken place in Istanbul, Turkey. A couple of months ago a guy name Sidar Sahin touched base with me, inviting me to give the opening keynote in that conference.

Becuse of the troubles in Gaza and that part of the world, Zeev wasn't able to attend - but he still did, in a sense:

Eventually, I decided to simply videotape the keynote (a shortened version of it), and send it over. Doing it was slightly more challenging than I expected - given that I wanted to show both myself and the background slides in the same video; But I think I managed to create an OK compromise, where both myself and the slides behind me were reasonably bright and in focus.

You can get the basic idea of how it looked from this shot taken at the conference. This isn't the first time that a video keynote has been delivered in the PHP community - at a previous year's php|architect conference, Marco Tabini gave a live video keynote.

php|architect has officially announced the keynote speakers for this year's php|works conference - Kevin Dangoor (founder of the TurboGears) and Jay Pipes (staff engineer on Sun's Drizzle project).

We are excited to announce the keynote speakers for this year's php|works and PyWorks conference to be held in Atlanta, Georgia in November. [...] Both Jay and Kevin are dynamic, interesting speakers and we are honored to be hosting them at this year's php|works/PyWorks conference.

Kevin will be giving a talk growth in an open source community and Jay will give a talk called "Confessions of a Serial Coder". You can find more information on the conference (including how to reserve your spot) on the main conference website.