Many thanks, very interesting. I did not even know of the existence of Nitrous, and I really like it, maybe also because their IDE's theme reminds me of those lovely "Laracasts" by Jeffrey Way...

What I like is that it's pretty much turn key. I can just hop on and demonstrate a few things with so little work to do. Brilliant! The majority of the cloud based IDE that I know of, do not support composer and are overall much more "clunky". Nitrous quickly became my second dev environment.

If you don't mind me asking, what's you first one?

@RoboPetr: nice post http://phpeter.tumblr.com/post/76516412240/laravel-in-under-5-minutes. However, to make it work, I had to add an additional step: In the console,

cd <yourprojectpath>
composer install

Before doing this, I was hitting a problem that is described in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16810425/trying-to-setup-laravel-4-gives-failed-to-open-stream-no-such-file-or-directory with an error message similar to:

Warning: require(<yourprojectpath>\bootstrap/../vendor/autoload.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in <yourprojectpath>\bootstrap\autoload.php on line 17 Call Stack
And the following:

Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '<yourprojectpath>\bootstrap/../vendor/autoload.php' (include_path=...)

Can you please verify and update your page, if required, so other laravel newbies finding your page can really make it in 5 minutes? ;-) Again: nice post! Thanks a lot, Oliver