diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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index 0000000..04c572a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+pecan.egg-info
diff --git a/pecan.egg-info/PKG-INFO b/pecan.egg-info/PKG-INFO
deleted file mode 100644
index cd59344..0000000
--- a/pecan.egg-info/PKG-INFO
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-Metadata-Version: 1.0
-Name: pecan
-Version: 0.1dev
-Summary: A WSGI object-dispatching web framework, in the spirit of TurboGears, only much much smaller, with many fewer dependencies.
-Home-page: http://github.com/cleverdevil/pecan
-Author: Jonathan LaCour
-Author-email: jonathan@cleverdevil.org
-License: BSD
-Description: UNKNOWN
-Platform: UNKNOWN
diff --git a/pecan.egg-info/SOURCES.txt b/pecan.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index c1ce750..0000000
--- a/pecan.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-README
-setup.cfg
-setup.py
-pecan/__init__.py
-pecan/configuration.py
-pecan/decorators.py
-pecan/hooks.py
-pecan/jsonify.py
-pecan/pecan.py
-pecan/rest.py
-pecan/routing.py
-pecan/secure.py
-pecan/templating.py
-pecan.egg-info/PKG-INFO
-pecan.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
-pecan.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
-pecan.egg-info/entry_points.txt
-pecan.egg-info/requires.txt
-pecan.egg-info/top_level.txt
-pecan.egg-info/zip-safe
-templates/__init__.py
-tests/templates/__init__.py
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diff --git a/pecan.egg-info/dependency_links.txt b/pecan.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b13789..0000000
--- a/pecan.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-
diff --git a/pecan.egg-info/entry_points.txt b/pecan.egg-info/entry_points.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 0dc6953..0000000
--- a/pecan.egg-info/entry_points.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-
-    [paste.paster_create_template]
-    pecan-base = templates:NewProjectTemplate
-    
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diff --git a/pecan.egg-info/not-zip-safe b/pecan.egg-info/not-zip-safe
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b13789..0000000
--- a/pecan.egg-info/not-zip-safe
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-
diff --git a/pecan.egg-info/requires.txt b/pecan.egg-info/requires.txt
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index 5a27ea5..0000000
--- a/pecan.egg-info/requires.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-WebOb == 1.0.0
-WebCore == 1.0.0
-simplegeneric == 0.7
-Kajiki == 0.3.1
-Paste == 1.7.5.1
-PasteScript == 1.7.3
-formencode == 1.2.2
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diff --git a/pecan.egg-info/top_level.txt b/pecan.egg-info/top_level.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index e2c770a..0000000
--- a/pecan.egg-info/top_level.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-templates
-tests
-pecan
diff --git a/pecan/__init__.py b/pecan/__init__.py
index 16f4f2c..189d932 100644
--- a/pecan/__init__.py
+++ b/pecan/__init__.py
@@ -23,4 +23,4 @@ def make_app(root, static_root=None, debug=False, errorcfg={}, **kw):
     return app
 
 def set_config(name):
-    pecan.conf.update_with_module(name)
+    conf.update_with_module(name)
diff --git a/templates/project/start.py_tmpl b/templates/project/start.py_tmpl
index d42b6d5..b9457af 100644
--- a/templates/project/start.py_tmpl
+++ b/templates/project/start.py_tmpl
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
         sys.exit(1)
 
     runtime_conf = set_config(sys.argv[1])
-    app_conf = runtime_conf.application 
+    app_conf = runtime_conf.app
     serv_conf = runtime_conf.server
 
     app = make_app(