Newbie Plugin Developement - Help needed

Hi all,

I am new to ELGG plugin developement. To be more precise I am new to open source arena. I am a Mainframe developer whose life is spent on COBOL and REXX :) .

I am currently trying to create a new plugin for the ELGG users. I had a look on the ELGG tutorials. But it does not help me in any ways. Based on the self study and trial and error method, I have managed to create a basic plugin, which does nothing. (It accepts some settings thru Settings).

I want to override the a particular view in my mod without affecting its current features. How should I do this?

Any links and documents on basic plugin development is welcomed.

Thanks in advance.