Clone and run this on a new EC2 instance running Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS to configure both the machine and your individual development environment as follows:

cd $HOME
sudo apt-get install -y git-core
git clone https://github.com/DoubleDoub/setup.git

if you want desktop programs like skype, chrome and sublimetext3 use the desktop branch
git checkout -b ubuntu-desktop origin/ubuntu-desktop



this does not work all to great


manually install nvm to avoid permission errors will fix nvm permission related errors.

[install nvm](https://github.com/creationix/nvm)

./setup/setup.sh   

To set monakai as theme in emacs 24 open emacs and load the theme with the interactive function load-theme M-x load-theme RET monokai

for semantic syntacs highligting M-x install-package (package-install 'color-identifiers-mode)

For fancy autocomplete and javascript static code analysis M-x install-package

See also http://github.com/startup-class/dotfiles and Startup Engineering Video Lectures 4a/4b for more details.