Because of the success of my article on java closure, I have decided to write another article on functional programming.

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Inversion of Control (IoC) is a very good idea.

But as the clever Joel Spolsky  noted, sometimes you need to be a super-natural hero to use it:

… I try not to be judgemental (HAHA!), but I think that people who use IoC containers are (A) very smart and (B) lacking in empathy for people who aren't as smart as they are. Everything makes perfect sense to them, so they have trouble understanding that many ordinary programmers will find the concepts confusing. It's the curse of knowledge. The people who understand IoC containers have trouble believing that there are people who don't understand it. …

I have trouble using Spring in at least two projects. On the third, it was a disaster, because a single software-architect-guy keeps passing around the Spring context factory as method parameter, getting beans from it!
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Nei mesi passati ho avuto l’opportunità di lavorare come software architect per un progetto basato su .NET e C#.

Da molti anni non bazzicavo in ambito Microsoft, e quindi è stata una utile palestra. Ho pensato di scrivere questo piccolo manuale per sviluppatori java con la ventura di dover diventare… C#-enabled.

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