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20th Apr 2004, 6:06am

Eating my own cooking

After seeing how well Madeleine with automatic commands stands up to being used in Instiki, I finally got around to making my own application using Madeleine.

It's a simple web app to keep track of who is coming to our squash club each week. I am using Madeleine to remember the state of each player (coming or not). Clicking on the buttons in the browser cause the state to be updated. Very simple.

And very quick to write. Avoiding any mucking around with SQL is really cool.

In this case there is no benefit from keeping objects in memory - the app doesn't keep running - it just fires up and reads it's command logs each time the web page is accessed. But this doesn't matter for such a small thing.

Next, I might try to use Madeline for something work related. But all those handy admin tools and the command line interface that comes with an SQL database would be hard to give up.