What would you automate into your boilerplate code after having 10 years of writing database applications? Here are some links to promising projects/essays:

Andromeda
Django Admin
Dataphor
Promises: User interface “hints” integrated with the data model

Naked Objects
MS Access and Query By Form
I like how CodeIgniter makes it possible to compose declarative data validations e.g. “valid_email|matches[email_confirm]|min_length[6]“
We need standard ValueConverters [...]