Clone and run this on a new node using Ubuntu 14.04 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/prairie-guy/ubuntu_setup.git
./ubuntu_setup/setup.sh See also http://github.com/prairie-guy/ubuntu_dotfiles and Startup Engineering Video Lectures 4a/4b for more details.