I also gave a talk at http://pygrunn.nl on development laptop setup: explicit automation. I don't have a summary of my own talk, but I have two other things for you:
- The basic idea is the same as a presentation I gave earlier in Amsterdam. And I do have a summary of that one.
- My presentation is online at http://speakerdeck.com/u/reinout/p/explicit-developer-laptop-automation
- https://github.com/reinout/tools/ has some of the content. Look at the readme files in the subdirectories.
Later on I'll try to document my dotfiles, but you can already find a lot of ideas and tips online for bash settings, for instance.