My first introduction to ORMs was hibernate. I immediately loved the idea but to be honest it can be extremely frustrating to get things done - especially if y

My first introduction to ORMs was hibernate. I immediately loved the idea but to be honest it can be extremely frustrating to get things done - especially if you are good at writing SQL already. It can feel like handcuffs! I kinda suspect that started the whole anti-ORM thing in response to the ridiculous complexity of some frameworks. I still use ORMs but I've decided that it has to be a light approach that doesn't try to totally hide the SQL code from you.