Hello Arduino people,
this is my first post ever. Working on my first Arduino project ever, but have been a PIC programmer for home use for some time.
This post is just a suggestion to add to the reference of the softwareserial library. In my application, I need to read some serial data but not all the time. After the .begin(), the timing of my application goes through the window. In order to fix that, I had to do a .end() when I am done with serial data (GPS by the way), do my timing critical stuff and and re-enable the serial with a .begin() when I need serial data again.
The .end() is not mentioned in the Sofwareserial reference web page. And that resulted in a few hours of stressful googling and hair-pulling 
Otherwise, quite happy with the Arduino business, I am openly admitting I won't be using PICs again.
cheers and 73,
Dimitris VK1SV