If you have a lot of projects in your Eclipse workspace you should check out the Dynamic Working Sets plug-in.

It allows you to define working sets based on a regular expression. If a project name matches the regex it will be included in the working set.

It sure beats adding new projects to existing working sets all the time. Really handy to keep your workspace organized.

Yesterday I went to a "A new approach to licensing" a Profoss conference about open source licensing.

Even though most of the speakers were lawyers (speaking a funny kind of English), I did learn quite a few things:

"Operation in progress..." and a whole bunch of "Read timed out" errors is all I get when I try to upgrade my Eclipse installation from 3.4.1 to 3.4.2.

It is also painfully clear that the current update manager (aka the 'new update manager') has problems coping with all these network time-outs. There's no way to cancel the whole update. I'll have to sit through all time-outs (one for each jar) because the update manager dialog is modal.

Wouldn't it be great if Eclipse would keep all views in a stack sorted alphabetically? This way I wouldn't have to manually reorganize my views after opening a new one.

Earlier today I was struggling with Subversion in my Eclipse installation. I'm using Subversive 2.0.4 with the SVNKit 1.5 Implementation in Eclipse 3.4. When I tried to add a directory to version control using the Team > Add to Version Control... menu item, an error occurred.