My favorite name for this is "dead bug" style.
It looks like a disaster, but it gives very good performance for RF and high speed digital circuits because everything is built on the ground plane, the leads can be very short, and capacitance to ground will be very low for leads connected through the air. I used this technique to build a circuit that squares up a 10 MHz sine wave, divides it by 10K, and then attenuates the output. I've attached a picture of the output pulse. The horizontal axis is sample intervals of 100 ps. The vertical axis is volts across a 50 ohm load.
Ed