diff --git a/examples/CommandPipeline.php b/examples/CommandPipeline.php
index 1edc4d48..76f25cf0 100644
--- a/examples/CommandPipeline.php
+++ b/examples/CommandPipeline.php
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 <?php
 require_once 'SharedConfigurations.php';
 
-// when you have a whole set of consecutive commands to send to 
+// When you have a whole set of consecutive commands to send to 
 // a redis server, you can use a pipeline to improve performances.
 
-$redis = Predis\Client::create($configurations);
+$redis = new Predis\Client($single_server);
 
 $replies = $redis->pipeline(function($pipe) {
     $pipe->ping();
@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ Array
 
 )
 */
-?>
\ No newline at end of file
+?>
diff --git a/examples/CustomDistributionStrategy.php b/examples/CustomDistributionStrategy.php
index 27a1c07b..957f4297 100644
--- a/examples/CustomDistributionStrategy.php
+++ b/examples/CustomDistributionStrategy.php
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?php
-require '../lib/Predis.php';
+require_once 'SharedConfigurations.php';
 
 // Developers can customize the distribution strategy used by the client 
 // to distribute keys among a cluster of servers simply by creating a class 
@@ -40,16 +40,11 @@ class NaiveDistributionStrategy
     }
 }
 
-$servers = array(
-    'redis://127.0.0.1:6379?alias=first',
-    'redis://127.0.0.1:6380?alias=second',
-);
-
 $options = array(
     'key_distribution' => new NaiveDistributionStrategy(),
 );
 
-$redis = new Predis\Client($servers, $options);
+$redis = new Predis\Client($multiple_servers, $options);
 
 for ($i = 0; $i < 100; $i++) {
     $redis->set("key:$i", str_pad($i, 4, '0', 0));
@@ -60,6 +55,6 @@ $server1 = $redis->getClientFor('first')->info();
 $server2 = $redis->getClientFor('second')->info();
 
 printf("Server '%s' has %d keys while server '%s' has %d keys.\n", 
-    'first', $server1['db0']['keys'], 'second', $server2['db0']['keys']
+    'first', $server1['db15']['keys'], 'second', $server2['db15']['keys']
 );
 ?>
diff --git a/examples/MultipleSetAndGet.php b/examples/MultipleSetAndGet.php
index 1c5c8f86..16f37ca5 100644
--- a/examples/MultipleSetAndGet.php
+++ b/examples/MultipleSetAndGet.php
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ $mkv = array(
     'usr:0003' => 'Third user' 
 );
 
-$redis = Predis\Client::create($configurations);
+$redis = new Predis\Client($single_server);
 
 $redis->mset($mkv);
 $retval = $redis->mget(array_keys($mkv));
@@ -26,4 +26,4 @@ Array
     [2] => Third user
 )
 */
-?>
\ No newline at end of file
+?>
diff --git a/examples/PubSubContext.php b/examples/PubSubContext.php
index a78f86fa..41a598ee 100644
--- a/examples/PubSubContext.php
+++ b/examples/PubSubContext.php
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 <?php
-require_once '../lib/Predis.php';
+require_once 'SharedConfigurations.php';
 
 // Redis 2.0 features new commands that allow clients to subscribe for 
 // events published on certain channels (PUBSUB).
 
 // Create a client and disable r/w timeout on the socket
-$redis  = new Predis\Client('redis://127.0.0.1:6379/?read_write_timeout=-1', 'dev');
+$redis  = new Predis\Client($single_server + array('read_write_timeout' => -1));
 
 // Initialize a new pubsub context
 $pubsub = $redis->pubSubContext();
diff --git a/examples/SharedConfigurations.php b/examples/SharedConfigurations.php
index 8f96e62b..03a5cb0a 100644
--- a/examples/SharedConfigurations.php
+++ b/examples/SharedConfigurations.php
@@ -1,9 +1,24 @@
 <?php
 require_once '../lib/Predis.php';
 
-$configurations = array(
+$single_server = array(
     'host'     => '127.0.0.1', 
     'port'     => 6379, 
     'database' => 15
 );
-?>
\ No newline at end of file
+
+$multiple_servers = array(
+    array(
+       'host'     => '127.0.0.1',
+       'port'     => 6379,
+       'database' => 15,
+       'alias'    => 'first',
+    ),
+    array(
+       'host'     => '127.0.0.1',
+       'port'     => 6380,
+       'database' => 15,
+       'alias'    => 'second',
+    ),
+);
+?>
diff --git a/examples/SimpleSetAndGet.php b/examples/SimpleSetAndGet.php
index d6e34327..9a39f447 100644
--- a/examples/SimpleSetAndGet.php
+++ b/examples/SimpleSetAndGet.php
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ require_once 'SharedConfigurations.php';
 
 // simple set and get scenario
 
-$redis = Predis\Client::create($configurations);
+$redis = new Predis\Client($single_server);
 
 $redis->set('library', 'predis');
 $retval = $redis->get('library');
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@ print_r($retval);
 /* OUTPUT
 predis
 */
-?>
\ No newline at end of file
+?>