Creating a plugin for 1.8.2

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Is there a tutorial somewhere on how to create a plugin for 1.8.2?

I want to get a plugin created to replace songposter.

There seems to be some redundancies

The Songposter plugin sends the song info and album art to their server, and the plugin contains the user names and passwords for each social media site.

Songposter then passes on the info and art to Buffer, who also has the user names and passwords for the social media accounts we want to post to.

Then Buffer posts to the social media accounts

But if any one of those servers are down, the whole thing comes to a grinding halt

Buffer was down for 2 days in September, and the Songposter server has been down for most of the month, with no end in sight. (Hint to Songposter: If it ain't broke, don't fix it)

It seems to me that one of those middle men, both of which want to get paid, can be cut out

So I want to get a new plugin developed to cut out Songposter and go directly to buffer, if I can find a tutorial

TIA