add GitHub Flavored Markdown to README

* This makes the example code easier to read,
  especially when perusing the docs on github
Merge pull request #1 from phlipper/patch-1

add GitHub Flavored Markdown to README
Merge branch 'master' into develop

Conflicts:
	README.md
BUMP 0.1.1
Merge branch 'release/0.1.1' into develop