Just another Don't Do this when Developing SharePoint Blog Post - IT IS NEEDED!(Via WithinSharePoint)

Ok, you hear over and over and over again, don't do this, don't do that when developing SharePoint. But it seems that not too many people listen to all that wonderful best practice guidance. This code has so many bad components to it was unbelievable. Every SharePoint rule was broken. There were so many broken things that we couldn't fix them all, so we focused on the most important and visible items.

Maarten has done a great job of summarizing all the things we had to do to fix this code. Check out his blog.