Multisite plugin: How to & related questions

Hello,

I am new to WP and multisite.

Frustratingly (mildly), I am finding that almost all plugins I want to use are setup to work on individual blogs rather than the entire network of blogs.

Of course, not all plugins will work on a network, but the few that seem like they should have a “settings” page in the network admin, don’t.

With that said, I figure it would be fun to write my own plugins so I don’t always have to rely on other people’s plugins to modify elements of my site.

Does anyone have any tutorials, tips, and/or code MS-compatible examples they could share with a noob WP plugin developer?

My goal is to figure out how to setup a plugin that has an interface that can be accessed via the /wp-admin/network/settings.php page.

I would love to see a basic “template” plugin.

Any help would be more than appreciated. ??