my development machine build guide

This is a semi-automated guide to configure my system.

This repo contains some scripts to configure different system settings, and also all the relevant dotfiles for the software that I use more frequently.

OSX configuration

To configure the basic OS stuff, just run the following command and restart the computer afterwards:

$ osx/configure.sh

The following steps will install and configure the needed tools and apps for development. First install the XCode command line tools:

$ xcode-select --install

Then install homebrew:

$ osx/apps/homebrew.sh

The last step is to install and configure several apps/utilities:

$ osx/apps.sh

Manual OSX configuration

There is some stuff in OSX that has to be configured manually:

Install Apple apps

Open the App Store and install the Apple apps that can't be installed via brew cask: iMovie, Pages, Numbers and Keynote.

Mission control

Create 2 spaces in Mission control

iPhone

Connect the iPhone and Open Image Capture. Then select the iPhone and change the select box to: "Connecting this device opens: No Application"

Photoshop configuration

Once Adobe Photoshop has been manually installed, execute:

$ osx/apps/photohop.sh

Then, enable the custom profile. Go to Window → Workspace and select the rafeca workspace.

Reduce the Cache Levels. Go to Photoshop → Preferences → Performance. Enter a value of 1 in the Cache Levels text box.

Reduce Amount of History States. Go to Photoshop → Preferences → Performance. Enter 10 in the History States text box.

Disable Export Clipboard. Go to Photoshop → Preferences → General. Deselect Export Clipboard.

Configure color profiles. Go to Edit -> Color profiles and set RGB space to sRGB IEC61966-2.1. The color management policy for RGB should be "Convert to Working RGB".

Debian configuration

This repo can also be used to configure debian systems. To do so, just run:

$ debian/configure.sh

Common configuration

This is the basic configuration, which is common for OSX/Linux.

This must be executed after configuring all the other stuff.

$ zsh/configure.sh
$ git/configure.sh
$ vim/configure.sh
$ nodejs/configure.sh
$ ruby/configure.sh
$ python/configure.sh
$ tmux/configure.sh