Lately I've been re-reading Lou Gerstner's book Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?, an account of his time as CEO of IBM and the turnaround he instigated in the 90s. Near the end of the book he emphases action and producing results. He's mostly referring to his direct subordinate executives but really it could be extrapolated to anyone in the company. You can have a fantastic vision and plan but if you don't execute well no one will give a damn, especially the shareholders. The bottom line: results.

So in that spirit I decided to drop AudioMan "planning" for a bit and add a new feature. But since I'm starting up on development for the first time in about a month I decided to tackle something relatively small: automatic capitalization of tag data.

You can now set a checkbox in preferences to automatically capitalize all of the words in your tags. This feature can be extended though, and probably will be. What variations of capitalization do you think we should include?

"All lower case" and "All upper case" are obvious but simple options but I could also extend the regular capitalization to exclude certain words that a person might not want capitalized like a, the, in, if, on unless they are at the start of a phrase. The user could have a text box to enter a comma separated list of words and they would not be capitalized.

Update Wed 4:49 AM I've changed capitalization so that given words can be excluded, as mentioned above. It's available in the newest developer build now. Here's an updated screenshot:

Automatic capitalization is in the latest development build of AudioMan and will be released in AudioMan 0.1.2. It is also available through anonymous CVS access.