Ward Bell from IdeaBlade and I recorded an episode of the ALT.NET Podcast with Mike Moore on Object Relational Mapping. It's a two parter, with the first part being a discussion on what we want from O/R Mapping, and the second episode getting into the whole Entity Framework controversy. I'm obviously ALT.NET to the hilt, but Ward is coming from a different perspective. Hopefully between the two of us we covered the ground in a balanced way. From Mike's announcement, we touched on:
P.S. I'm absolutely sick of people quoting Ted Neward's Vietnam post. Waaa. Sometimes it's really hard and you have to roll your own one-off solutions for edge cases -- and the edge cases that I remember were caused by some goofy database designs and an arbitrary design decision. Besides, Neward isn't saying let's go write stored procedures. He's wanting OODB's. So if he can use an historical reference to describe ORM, I'll use a different one for OODB's:
Next year with an OODB. (think "Next year in Jerusalem")