[InvisibleCities]

First of all, the author doesn't hate IoC and Containers, he hates XML registration (with good reason). I can't say anything about Java, but in C#, when you use modern IoC frameworks like StructureMap and AutoFac, all registration of components takes place in code, using generics and lambdas. This allows you to easily wrap your services in interfaces, de-coupling code and making things much more testable, especially if you use a good mocking framework like Rhino. When you combine DI/IoC with ideas like the Onion Archtecture (http://jeffreypalermo.com/blog/the-onion-architecture-part-1...), writing readable, testable, flexible, maintainable applications becomes supremely easy.