[sdiy] ground & power on pad-per-hole solder breadboard

[Kenneth Martinez]

I started soldering a vco on a solder breadboard with a copper pad per
hole...it doesn't have any copper ground or power busses, but I aligned
the ICs and components so that leads could be connected to ground by
soldering them to wires running in straight lines down the board between
the rows of ICs and components, and then connecting these ground lines
at the edges of the board.  For power, I'd planned to "daisy-chain" the
+ and - supplies for the 5 ICs, connecting IC1 to the board's power
input, connecting IC2's power pins with short wires from IC1's power
pins, etc.

I'm wondering now if it would make any difference if I used a star
arrangement to connect each IC directly to the board's power input?  And
would it be better to run separate ground wires from some or all
components to a central point instead of connecting them to those wires
running down the board to simulate ground busses?