On the Symfony blog today they've announced what they call the Symfony Marketplace, a resource to locate products and services, all related to Symfony.

Today we are thrilled to introduce the new and long-awaited Marketplace section on symfony.com website. The Symfony Marketplace is a directory of products and services related to Symfony and its ecosystem. [...] We envisioned this marketplace for the first time when we launched Symfony 2.0. Thanks to the recent boom of Symfony related services and applications, the marketplace is now a reality.

Currently they have around 45 projects (open source and commercial) and tools that are popular in the Symfony community. There's also links to several Symfony-friendly services out there including Microsoft Azure and Platform.sh. Sound interesting? Be sure to check it out or find out how to get your projects/product/service added to the lists.

The SitePoint PHP blog has a new post from editor Bruno Skvorc with a list of eight Heroku add-ons for PHP applications. These add-ons (they call them "dynos") he lists help with things like logging, monitoring, working with CDNs and adding deploy hooks.

Heroku uses “dynos” as units of computing power which spin up your slugs. Dynos are lightweight, isolated containers for your apps which can execute any process type and can run and scale independently. There are two types of dyno – a web dyno, which handles web requests letting you serve more users as you increase your web dyno power, and worker dynos, which handle everything else like running your code and processing background tasks.

Bruno walks you through getting a sample Laravel-based application up and running on Heroku's PHP functionality and provides a list of add-ons from the Marketplace to get you started. His list includes:

• Papertrail
• Stillalive
• Fastly
• IronMQ support

These add-ons and more all come with descriptions, configuration settings/commands to enable them and some with screenshots showing the results.

Eran Galperin has posted a last call for entries into the Binpress programming contest with the final ten days looming on the horizon.

Have you been developing custom solutions for the web? pick your best feature, module or UI component that can be packaged and re-used and publish it on Binpress. Binpress is a marketplace for source-code, where developers can sell and buy source code from each other. We are looking for high-quality code from professional developers. If you think you have what it takes, please go over our submission guidelines and join the contest.

There's over $40,000 USD in prizes for the winners of the contest in categories for "best submission" and "best submission per language" (you can submit PHP, ASP.NET, Python, Java, Ruby or Javascript).

Binpress has announced a new contest they've put together to try to find the best of the best programmers out there. The contest offers over $40,000 USD worth of prizes in three different categories going to the best code submitted to the Binpress site.

Have you been developing custom solutions for the web? pick your best feature, module or UI component that can be packaged and re-used and publish it on Binpress. Binpress is a marketplace for source-code, where developers can sell and buy source code from each other. We are looking for high-quality code from professional developers.

If you're interested, check out the submission guidelines and or just jump in and join the contest with your own submission. The grand prize winner will receive a $17,000 USD award, second and third will receive $13,000 USD and the winners of the "best submission per language" awards will all receive $10,000 USD.