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Hunter Jumper News Site Development

May 14, 2025

Hello Everyone and Welcome to Hunter Jumper News:

For those of you visiting us for the first time, we at HorseSports Media are very proud of the development effort behind the creation of Hunter Jumper News. The site you see today represents thousands of man hours of development from a truly global development team.

The upgrade of the site has been in the works for some time and we have just completed our Beta Test, so hopefully we should be on solid footing.

The site itself is based upon Open Source Code. The essence of the Open Source development model is the rapid creation of solutions within an open, collaborative environment. Collaboration within the Open Source community (developers and end users) promotes a higher standard of quality, and helps to ensure the long-term viability of both data and applications.

At HJN, we owe a debt of gratitude to a worldwide community. The site itself is an integration of Open Source Code Systems:

• WordPress forms the basis of the blogging system
• Gallery2 software forms the basis for the gallery management system

These systems have been integrated into a single system at HJN. A single login system was developed so that users could register and the applications have been embedded in each other. As an example, the Photo System will allow individuals to view the various Albums as a collection, yet at the same time an Author can choose a photo in the gallery to display with his article.

We particularly want to thank the following groups:

• Joff Redfern, Vice President, of Yahoo.com for his and his development teams encouragement to create a multiple author content management system
• Greg Oz in Melbourne, Australia headed up the embedding of the Gallery software into the Content Management System.
• Kirk Steffensen of Springfield, VA headed up the image chooser development effort. This allows images to be selected from the gallery system and displayed in the authoring system
• The Gallery software was originally developed by Bharat Mediratta. Today, the development is a distributed effort, with collaboration from around the globe. The team is well organized, with weekly meetings, and constant communication. According to Bharat’s son Cole, he is the nocturnal part of the team. He never sleeps.
• The Content Management System is based upon WordPress. WordPress started in 2001 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing on the web and fewer users than you can count on your hands and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by millions of people every day. The lead developers on the project are Ryan Boren and Matthew Mullenweg.
• A huge thanks goes out to Owen Winkler who developed HJN’s Role Management System that allows registered subscribers, press agents and authors all to create their own articles.

We hope that you have as much fun viewing HunterJumperNews.com, as we had in creating it for you.

Ours is a new systems integration and as with all new systems, we anticipate minor problems. Please email us with any problems that you uncover.

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