I've recently been working extensively with 2 ORMS. Subsonic and Nettiers. Both really good ORMS. My favourite though without a doubt is Subsonic written and designed by Rob Connery who just coincidentally now works for the ASP.NET team at Microsoft...
Writing a search engine can be a nightmare. There are so many permutations of possible search criteria that can be handed down to the DBM system that one is tempted to steer towards writing code that generates dynamic SQL on on the client side. This can...