Development Environment

 Test Sharepoint Environment
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointadmin/thread/22d3d057-04b6-48c3-82b1-93f0699688f6

Team Foundation Server
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/echarran/archive/2010/04/21/howto-building-sharepoint-projects-with-tfs-team-build-2010.aspx

Restore a content database in SharePoint Server 2010
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee748604.aspx

Move all databases (SharePoint Server 2010)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512725.aspx

Restore a site collection (SharePoint Foundation 2010)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee748630.aspx

Restore Sharepoint From Databases new server instance
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-CA/sharepoint2010general/thread/3f4ef2d4-7224-49db-93e0-4fa10dc960b2

Issues Outlined
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010setup/thread/1d7a69cc-2a22-4bd7-b63e-3944847f075d

Untested Script from Author of Automating SharePoint 2010 with Windows PowerShell 2.0
http://shannonbray.wordpress.com/2010/06/26/moving-sharepoint-2007-sites-to-another-environment-with-powershell/