(Note: This is my original [circa 1995] homepage. I've updated the information and all of the links should work. This page used to be the entire website. It has moved from my company's server (at Cimarron), to Flashnet, to Everyone's Internet, and now to my own domain, laruetx.com.)
Hello! My name is Alan LaRue, and I live in Baytown, Texas. I program for a living, and have been self-employed since August, 1997. Prior to that, I was with Cimarron Software Services for 13 years. I've been working for years on a control system called "ADACS", about which there is nothing on the Internet that I can find. It ran on VAX and Alpha computers, and uses Fortran (with some C) as the source, but we've ported it to Linux, and the Fortran will be going away soon. The display system runs on PCs, and uses a program called WinTerm (not the UNIX Winterm program). WinTerm emulates the old Intecolor 8820 process control terminals, but adds lots of functionality. I normally make my displays look like real Windows programs. I am currently on contract at Air Liquide America Corp.
Here are some things from the scrapbook my mom forced me to make in 1973. Now I think it's pretty cool!
See my resume if you like.
I've been married since 1981 to Jacquelyn, who
has worked for the city of Baytown (Ross Sterling Library) and the Harris County
Adult Learing Center at Lee College
in programs that teach adults to speak English, and who is the all-time world's
best wife and mother. She is mostly responsible for our two sons turning
out to be the envy of every other mother I know, and I absolutely could not
do without her. She is currently a substitute teacher with the Goose
Creek CISD in Baytown.
We have been members of the Eastside Church of Christ in Baytown, Texas since 1985.
| We have two sons, Adam (22), and Jesse (19).
Adam has is a senior at the University of Texas in Austin, majoring in electrical engineering. Jesse is a sophomore at Florida College in Temple Terrace, FL. Both play guitar. Adam has a Danelectro 56-U2 electric and a Fender Ultimate Chorus amp. Jesse has a Yamaha BBG4 electric bass guitar, and toured with the Florida College "Friends" performing/recruiting group in the spring of 2006. Funny thing... when I started college as a music major, people said I was wasting my ability, and I should go into engineering. When Adam started college as an electrical engineering major, they wondered why he wasn't going into music! My, how times change. Jesse is looking at chemical engineering at this point.
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I grew up in Groves, Texas, attended West Groves Elementary, Woodlawn Junior High, and then graduated from Port Neches - Groves High School in 1978. I was in band in junior high and high school (played trombone), and in choir my senior year (made "All Region" and sang the role of Conrad Birdie in the senior play). |
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Back to Baytown: Thanks to Russ Williams for sending me a picture of the
Fred Hartman suspension bridge! (Russ' page is no longer active) This was
for a while the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world, although a bridge
in Kobe, Japan, now dwarfs it. The main span of the bridge is 2475
feet long, and there are more than 618 miles of cable strand in the cables
which support the span. The bridge is a little over two miles long measured
end-to-end.
The link takes you to the City of Baytown's
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