Tips needed on soldering prototype PCB

Using Arduino General Electronics
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"connected strips" are more commonly called "bus strips". And how you implement it is pretty much up to you, not sure there is a universal method.

Some pre-fab solder proto-boards come with bus strips:

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=proto-board&hl=en&sa=X&qscrl=1&nord=1&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS373US373&biw=1061&bih=721&tbm=isch&prmd=ivns&tbnid=qgp6ofaCwd_m9M:&imgrefurl=http://www.futurlec.com/ProtoBoards.shtml&docid=v1P8Gwr7S5kDKM&w=300&h=241&ei=gQ1OTsfsLoHmiAKTvbxs&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=203&page=1&tbnh=142&tbnw=177&start=0&ndsp=13&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0&tx=93&ty=55

Lefty