It was poorly explained there, but essentially that style of reasoning does work: http://www.amazon.com/Primer-Infinitesimal-Analysis-John-Bel...
And I at least find that approach easier and more useful. (I learned it from the Feynman lectures on physics, where he didn't axiomatize it; the above link does.)
https://www.amazon.com/Primer-Infinitesimal-Analysis-John-Be...
Any interesting property of this logic and model is that all functions are infinitely differentiable.
Other introductions are An Invitation to Smooth Infinitesimal Analysis by John L. Bell and Synthetic Differential Geometry by Michael Shulman.
http://publish.uwo.ca/~jbell/invitation%20to%20SIA.pdf
http://home.sandiego.edu/~shulman/papers/sdg-pizza-seminar.p...