Fri May  8 08:00:46 EDT 2015

Slept well. It's supposed to approach the mid 80's today.

Goals:

    Work:
    - Think about new file server? Replace NAS?
      Done.
    - Read about SQLAlchemy
      An Object Relational Mapper for Python objects.
      Provides database engine abstraction (SQLite, MariaDB, Postgresql, etc.).
      I still don't really get the benefits of an ORM.

Questions:

    - Why, when trying to `pip install MySQL-python`, do I get:

        EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found

    I'm running MariaDB, which apparently doesn't include the mysql_config binary.
    Many things on the internet say to `apt-get install sudo apt-get install libmariadbclient-dev`, but that doesn't work. At least on Debian Testing, libmariadbclient-dev doesn't provide mysql_config.

    Doing `apt-file search mariadb_config` lead me to do:

        sudo apt-get install libmariadb-client-lgpl-dev

   and further:

        cd /usr/local/bin/
        sudo ln -s /usr/bin/mariadb_config ./mysql_config

    I was then able to install mysql-python with pip.

    If it's not already installed, then also do:

        sudo apt-get install python-dev