Prereq: submit ssh key to GitHub

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C “email_address”
cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub

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 update
sudo apt-get install -y git-core
git clone https://github.com/tp9/se001setup.git
./se001setup/setup.sh   

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