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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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
SharePoint Gurus (previous)
SSW Sydney (previous)
Badges
Public Presentations
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