Merge pull request #21 from michaelrice/development

version bump for release
add branch name to readme
added VMware to the readme description
Ensure file handle is closed by using with statement
removed useless customer class and replaced with dict
removed links to bad releases from readme, changed version to development
fixes issue with non-ascii chars in customer

This fix adds support for non ascii names in customers
by doing a decode utf8 on the strings. fixes #25
Merge pull request #26 from michaelrice/issue_25

fixes issue with non-ascii chars in customer
Merge branch 'master' into development
ready for bug fix release
Merge pull request #27 from michaelrice/development

Bug fix release
change setup to mark DEVELOPMENT version and update readme to point at correct badge for branch
Adding tests and groundwork for vcd
adds support to create a vcd. fixes #16