Exporting block settings in a Feature (Drupal 7) I am trying to learn about creating a reasonable workflow between a development site and a production site and I have decided to use the Features module to help accomplish this task.

On my front page I have a couple blocks that display newly added and top rated content.  I have used features to export these views but I do not see anyway inside of the Features module to export my block settings.  I set the new projects and highest rated blocks to show up in the content section of a page. I filter it to only show up on the front-page inside the view.

How to export these block settings inside my feature so I do not need to reconfigure them on each site?
You can export much more using Feature together with Strongarm and Features extra.

Strongarm gives site builders a way to override the default variable values that Drupal core and contributed modules ship with. It is not an end user tool, but a developer and site builder tool which provides an API and a limited UI.

Features extra supports: vocabularies; nodequeues (definitions); block settings; custom blocks (boxes).

Additionally UUID Features Integration provides a mechanism for exporting content (nodes, taxonomy, fields) into a features module.