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I use CakePHP (actually forced to). You can't compare the bake tools with Django admin. The UI of Django admin is usable in fact it's actually nice. I've had lot's of clients who like it. But the generated CSS by the bake tools is non-usable. I usually end up having to write the views for admin when using CakePHP compared to not having to do anything much when using Django.

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Unfortunately, bake's default skeleton is indeed pretty lame, but it is possible to replace this with other skeletons (https://github.com/josegonzalez/app_skellington for example, which does auth etc.)

And Django Admin? I've since stopped my work on app_skellington in order to work on https://github.com/josegonzalez/cake_admin. It isn't complete, not by a long shot, and php's syntax makes it difficult to use a DSL without going outside the language into something like yaml files, but it will do.

I actually like the bake tools better than Django admin. The problem with Django admin for me is that the skeleton is just "magic." By that I mean I often want to go in and customize the admin interfaces and forms, but Django makes it hard to do that. Bake actually produces real MVC files, which I can then customize to my liking.

> the generated CSS by the bake tools is non-usable.

Bake doesn't generate css, it generates view scripts. The default CSS is supposed to be over ridden by your own style sheet. Django-admin is like a gimped version of bake, it's actually closer to Cake's auto scaffold.

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