Making web apps requires knowledge/skills/familiarity with other tools. Here is a list of tools I’m trying to be familiar with:
Light weight markup langauges:
- Markdown — a markup langauge
- Textile — Basecamp, Backpack, Lighthouse
- trac wiki formatting — a popular ticket tracking system syntax
- Google Code wiki syntax
- DokuWiki syntax — a popular wiki syntax
- MediaWiki syntax — a popular wiki syntax
- RDoc
- phpDocumentator
Communication via writing is of utmost importance. I prefer Markdown, and many open source systems have a plugin for Markdown, but in many cases, I don’t have a choice. But TextMate supports all the syntaxes except for Google Code. (Google Code Bundle is in the works.)