diff --git a/README.mkd b/README.mkd
index ccc09138b..bc18cb488 100644
--- a/README.mkd
+++ b/README.mkd
@@ -72,8 +72,7 @@ This installs the latest GitHub versions of mitmproxy, netlib and pathod into `m
 
 The test suite requires the `dev` extra requirements listed in [setup.py](https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/blob/master/setup.py) and [pathod](http://pathod.net), version matching mitmproxy. Install these with:
 
-`
-pip install "mitmproxy[dev]""`
+`pip install "mitmproxy[dev]"`
 
 
 Please ensure that all patches are accompanied by matching changes in the test
@@ -85,8 +84,3 @@ suite. The project maintains 100% test coverage.
 Rendering the documentation requires [countershape](http://github.com/cortesi/countershape). After installation, you can render the documentation to the doc like this:
 
 `cshape doc-src doc`
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diff --git a/examples/flowbasic b/examples/flowbasic
index 41402b0cc..c71debc93 100755
--- a/examples/flowbasic
+++ b/examples/flowbasic
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ class MyMaster(flow.FlowMaster):
 
 config = proxy.ProxyConfig(
     port=8080,
-    confdir="~/.mitmproxy/"  # use ~/.mitmproxy/mitmproxy-ca.pem as default CA file.
+    cadir="~/.mitmproxy/"  # use ~/.mitmproxy/mitmproxy-ca.pem as default CA file.
 )
 state = flow.State()
 server = ProxyServer(config)