Links of interest.
http://hackaday.com/2010/08/11/how-to-launchpad-programming-with-linux/
http://springuin.nl/en/articles/launchpadwindows
http://hackaday.com/2011/02/24/debugging-msp430-using-eclipse/
http://hackaday.com/2011/02/15/learn-to-debug-msp430-chips-using-iar/
http://hackaday.com/2010/08/13/porting-code-to-msp430/