Whoever is removing link placed here http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin pointing to to this http://atd.agranite.com/emerald-coast/internet/wp-hacks/ resource page . STOP

Here , link to archive back in 2008, this link was there .

http://web.archive.org/web/20080913225720/http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin

and archive of actual plugin page

http://web.archive.org/web/20080912221602/http://atd.agranite.com/emerald-coast/internet/wp-hacks

Blog was down for a short while but is back online and so its the tutorial on "How to Write a Simple WordPress Plugin "