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Stevo is a Dublin born Animator & Illustrator. He moved to London in the mid 90’s to pursue a career in traditional animation. It was here; through work at a new media company he was introduced to Flash animation. Having learnt about new media, web design and authoring, Stevo was employed by boo.com. Since then he has worked for a vast array of companies both in full time and freelance positions. He is currently working freelance from his studio in East London.
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Distributed authentication
One of the more tedious moments in visiting a new website is filling out the registration form. Here at Enter the Vortex, you do not have to fill out a registration form if you are already a member of Drupal. This capability is called distributed authentication, and Drupal, the software which powers Enter the Vortex, fully supports it.
Distributed authentication enables a new user to input a username and password into the login box, and immediately be recognized, even if that user never registered at Enter the Vortex. This works because Drupal knows how to communicate with external registration databases. For example, lets say that new user 'Joe' is already a registered member of Delphi Forums. Drupal informs Joe on registration and login screens that he may login with his Delphi ID instead of registering with Enter the Vortex. Joe likes that idea, and logs in with a username of joe@remote.delphiforums.com and his usual Delphi password. Drupal then contacts the remote.delphiforums.com server behind the scenes (usually using XML-RPC, HTTP POST, or SOAP) and asks: "Is the password for user Joe correct?". If Delphi replies yes, then we create a new Enter the Vortex account for Joe and log him into it. Joe may keep on logging into Enter the Vortex in the same manner, and he will always be logged into the same account.