There is no best practices...

James Blach writes about there being no best practice:

Dear Reader, I would like you to give up, henceforth, the idea of "best practice." Thank you. I want to stamp out "best practice" for several reasons...

I think in general when people say best practice they mean a practice that has been known to work within a given context, well I know I do. So it's technically true that there is no canonical "best" practices.