While watching some tutorials on laracasts I came across a pretty nifty tool for Laravel called Clockwork.  Clockwork includes a Google chrome extension and a back-end library on Github.  After configuring both you’ll have a clockwork tab in your inspector in Chrome.  You can use it’s functions to check how long code snippets take to execute, and echo out variables to the inspector just like console.log() in Javascript.  Neat! 🙂