Installed NodeJS v0.6.12 on MAC OS X using Mac Ports.
win764:node iwaldman$ which node
/opt/local/bin/node
win764:node iwaldman$ node -v
I had the same question. Richard Rodger,the author of 'Beginning Mobile Application Development in the Cloud' suggested I should either use the dispatch module (https://github.com/caolan/dispatch) or install an older version of connect, using:
npm install git://github.com/senchalabs/connect.git#1.8.6
Hope this helps! :)