> - Has anyone used stripboard?

I use perfboards laid out with a pattern of horizontal quads/fives seperated
by pairs of vertical buses; the buses (generally useful for power/ground)
are also available at the top and bottom of the board.  My company laid out
this board, got oodles of them made, and has found them quite useful for a
variety of projects.  Some of my design decisions on the board were less than
ideal (I put on some nice connector areas, but should have just put in a DB25
rather than both a 25 and a 9; and I should have only included one set of
double-row connectors rather than two).

Still, though, IMHO a combined horizontal/vertical arrangement can be handy.
Radio Shack has a couple of boards with this general idea, though they're
not perfect.

> - Is it really a quick and easy way to put a project onto a PCB?

Our custom perfboards work out pretty nicely.  Plated through-holes and
solder mask are nice (except when I oops and have to unsolder something.