Best Practices Webpart

It's a old story now, sharepoint has been around now for more than 6 years and numerous solution has been created using SharePoint Technology. But the basic remains and shoud be always kept in mind to have succesful implementation . I know many of developers might be aware of the best practices for developing the webparts but question is do we really follow them ?
Generally people go back to basics when something bombs , till then best practices are kept only in books. Anyways i have been thinking of writing about it from long time and here it goes today . just follow some of best practices and webparts maintenace becomes much easier and no more "Webpart maintenance page ".

• Error Handling : This is the most important part of webpart development . Always defined a try , catch , finally block in your webpart .E.g http://www.codeproject.com/KB/sharepoint/Errorhandling_in_Webparts.aspx
• Validate all user inputs
• Register the Client Side script to improve performance
• Always dispose the sharepoint Objects e.g. SPSite, SPWeb e.g. http://www.sharepoint-tips.com/2006/06/best-practices-writing-webparts-for.html
• Refrain using loops with list objects . use CAML query as much as possible to retrieve desired data

Database Maintenance for SharePoint Whitepaper

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/02/28/database-maintenance-for-sharepoint-whitepaper.aspx