voodootikigod/node-serialport — pull request #107 by rngadam (2012-11-07 21:08:13+00:00)
Title: Everything must occur after on('open')

I can't be the only one that made the newbie mistake of not registering a
listener on open and ONLY when that is received start writing/listening for data.

I can't see any mention of that in the main README.md so here's an update.