About

John is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Alumni in Office Server and Services (SharePoint) and Power Platform
(old url https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5000508?fullName=John Liu)

John is the founder of Flow Studio Solutions. Providing two loved tools: Flow Studio and Power Clarity.  He specializes and blogs (johnliu.net) frequently on client-side scripting, custom development, workflows and Forms. Originally from a long technical background with .NET, he made the jump to focus and work with numerous SharePoint and Office projects for the last decade.

John loves to find ways to bring the latest web technologies to the Office world, applying them to extend your business’ capabilities.  In recent years, John is very much in love with the Serverless technology stack – Azure Functions, Microsoft Flow (Azure Logic Apps), API management and Function proxies.

John is a frequent speaker at SharePoint Conference, SharePoint Saturday, Microsoft Ignite and Office 365 events around Australia, and helps organizing the Sydney SharePoint User Group and the Sydney Power Apps and Flow User Group (e.g. consuming all the pizza).


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For commercial / internal production code: This is a special deviation from CC-BY-SA, because IANAL, but you do not have to share your commercial / internal code back to me, as long as there is a comment in your code that links back to the article perma-link (this is probably useful for your colleagues as well since they'd want to know what the heck are you doing).  

Feel free to use any published code in your commercial projects.

If I've accentally published code that belongs to you or under a different Copyright scheme, please contact me and I will remove it per request.


Work


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Public Presentations

 

  • Speaking

  • SharePoint Saturday Melbourne 2011

  • SharePoint Saturday Canberra 2011

  • AUSPC 2011

 

  • SharePoint Saturday Melbourne 2010

  • Sydney Silverlight Design & Developers Network (SDDN), 2010

  • SharePoint Saturday Sydney, 2010

  • Sydney SharePoint User Group, 2010

  • Adelaide SharePoint User Group, 2010

  • AUSPC 2010

  • Sydney .NET User Group

Likes

  • Lives by the code, dies by the code

  • Presenting at user groups and mixing in the community at large

  • Never stop learning

  • Software Architectur'ing

  • Mentoring developers

  • Unblocking people's problems

  • Fix nasty bugs

  • Resolve merge conflicts

  • Test driven development and unit testing

  • Solving client's pains and problems

Hates 

  • (Bogged down by) Project Management

  • Code Archaeology

Husband and father

  • Married to lovely BFF: Lina

  • 1 adorable boy: Keith (2008)

  • 1 adorable girl: Kat (2013)

Avid MMO Gamer

  • Final Fantasy 11

  • Lost Ark (retired)

  • Black Desert Mobile (retired)

  • Black Desert Online (retired)

  • Neverwinter (XB1) (retired)

  • RIFT (Nightmare Tide) (retired)

  • Neverwinter PC (FREE, retired)

  • ArcheAge (retired)

  • Elderscroll Online (retired)

  • FF14 ARR (retired)

  • Wildstar (retired)

  • Defiance (retired)

  • Startrek Online (free)

  • Guild Wars 2 (free)

  • Diablo 3 (XB1)

  • Lineage II (retired)

  • World of Warcraft (Beta, Classic, BC, WotLK, Cata) (retired)

  • The Secret World (FREE)

  • AION (retired)

  • LOTRO (Free)

  • PotBS (retired)

  • Starwars Galaxy (retired)

  • Warhammer Online (retired)

  • Terra Nova (retired)

  • Eve Online (trial / retired)

  • Champions Online (trial / retired)

  • Free Realms (free / retired)

  • Also on Steam

  • And on XBox Live

The "Other" kind of gaming

  • Newbie D&D player (3.5e, 4e)

  • Eberron

  • D&D Castle Ravenloft

  • Huge Space Crusade fan

  • Hero Quest'ing with mini-John

  • Space Alert

  • Red November

  • Munchkins

  • Star Fluxx

History - Almost everything about John Liu in bullet points form.  Here we go!

  • Assimilates almost any .NET related technology that he can get his hands on

  • SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Server

  • WSS and MOSS

  • InfoPath and Workflows (SPD & Nintex)

  • Qdabra services

  • SharePoint Client Object Model

  • jQuery, KnockoutJS and TypeScript

  • REST and ADO.NET data service

  • Windows 8 Metro

  • Silverlight

  • (WPF before that)

  • ASP.NET, AJAX / MVC / Dynamic Data / Orchard

  • Windows Phone 8, 7.5, 7, and an unhealthy dose of Windows Mobile 6.x

  • WCF, RIA services

  • DirectX

  • PowerShell