title: How to make and handle Ajax calls using backbone.js
body: <p>I am new to the backbone. I tried to do ajax call in the below manner. And I am not sure how to handle the data from my get request?
  Here is the code:</p>
  
  <p>//Interacting with the server</p>
  
  <pre><code>var UserModel = Backbone.Model.extend({
      url:'http://api.geonames.org/astergdemJSON?formatted=true&amp;lat=50.01&amp;lng=10.2&amp;username=demo&amp;style=full'
  });
  
  var MyView = Backbone.View.extend({
      initialize: function() {
          this.model = new UserModel();
          this.model.fetch();
      },
      render: function() {
          alert('do awesome stuff here');
      }
  });
  </code></pre>