Well I spent several hours tuesday night trying to follow this and get it to work
After solving a bunch of path issues and installing VS2010 Express... I still can't get the node.js modules to install (particle-cli and the server one).
So with that toolchain I can compile the code but then I need to run my own cloud to send it to the photon? And that would be all CLI based at that point?
Is there somewhere that development on Particle Dev (for offline development) is being tracked? I want to be able to compile and flash the unit wireless from a nice interface.