Well, right now I am using MacKenzie's evaluation board for prototyping because it is easier for me to change code on the fly. I do have some sockets like that for my actual microcontroller.

I guess when I go out into the real world, I will have to get used to not breadboarding but right now, I am a graduate student in an Applied Physics program so the funding just isn't there to keep making boards. I do have experience using PCB programs and chemically etching boards from helping a fellow grad student, but it seemed to me that the process was prohibitively time consuming.

..an