In my development process I do use what Rob is describing in his post “Crazy Talk: Reducing ORM Friction” with some slight differences.

For example I developed Tech Head Brothers portal this way, as Innoveo Solutions web site. I use TDD and Domain Driven Development and I keep the mapping as one of the last step for my implementation.

Euss stand for Evaluant Universal Storage Services, it’s a great open source (MIT License) Object-Relational mapping framework.

I use Euss on Tech Head Brothers portal since a long time now.