If you're working with multiple development platforms and environments, it can help to use the same IDE to reduce the number of systems to learn and generally keep your sanity. Or you may just not like the Arduino IDE - so in either case an interesting option is to use the open-source Eclipse development tool. Modifying Eclipse to deal with Arduino via AVR-GCC and the SDK can be a difficult path, however the people from the University of Central Arkansas (in the USA) have written a detailed step-by-step tutorial on making it happen.
So if you're interested in upgrading your IDE to Eclipse, click here. And for more, we're on twitter and Google+, so follow us for news and product updates as well.
If you're new to Arduino, the first step is a solid board for your projects - our Freetronics Eleven - the Arduino-Uno compatible with low-profile USB socket, onboard prototyping space and easy to view LEDs:
