I use eclipse because it has support for a lot of the different languages I have to work with. So I organize my projects by language first under an eclipse wor

I use eclipse because it has support for a lot of the different languages I have to work with. So I organize my projects by language first under an eclipse workspace folder. ~/workspace/perl ~/workspace/erlang ~/workspace/cpp Then inside each folder there is a project. And I either create them or import them using eclipse. For projects that are large and require a large number of languages. I simply create it under the workspace directory. (i.e. ~/workspace/MyBigProject) And from then I break it down into languages again along with other folder necessary for larger projects. MyBigProject -> bin/ conf/ docs/ erlang/ perl/ sql/ web/ Then I tend to use the best possible layout for a project of that language. For example since I use CGI::Application a lot using perl, my perl folder uses the following structure: perl -> deps/ <-- cpan/other modules that are needed MyBigProject/ <--Namespace for project modules startup.pl <- mod_perl2 startup file templates/ <- HTML::Template templates... and MyBigProject breaks down like so: MyBigProject -> DB/ UI/ (Other Modules) and so on, the same goes for the erlang OTP: MyBigProject/erlang/ -> db/ deps/ ebin/ Makefile src and MyBigProject/web just holds all the html/javascript/css files for the WebUI. And so on.