Your ColdFusion Developer Has Gone. Now What?
ColdFusion powers more production systems than most developers will admit. When the person who built yours moves on, finding someone who can pick it up - without breaking it - is harder than it should be.
We’ve been writing ColdFusion (cfml) in production since 2000. Not maintaining it reluctantly - building with it deliberately, because for certain systems it’s still the right tool.
We deliver Fast ColdFusion Code for all our clients.
We'd love to do the same for you
Whether you are starting from the beginning, know exactly what's broken, or just sense something's off - tell us your goals, and we'll take it from there.
We'll jump on a call, dig into what's holding you back, and map out a solution - whether that's a rebuild, a redesign, or targeted fixes.
Once you've signed off, we launch the new site - streamlined, fast, and designed to convert. Need ongoing support? We're here.
Murmur8 is a true asset
Murmur8 is Proactive, highly skilled, and a great collaborator. I would highly recommend them to any business looking for robust IT solutions, expert CRM development, ColdFusion expertise, and meaningful lead generation support.
Matthew Stone
Owner, INC Utilities
Home-grown Excellence
I have worked with Paul since he first started the company, and have never looked back. For some people, there may be cheaper alternatives in India; there may be specialists out there for narrow areas of expertise; but you really can't beat Murmur8 for bespoke responsive-based designs to back-end systems development and integration... Pretty much the full package at a very reasonable rate.
James Stait
Owner, British Life
Knowledgeable and fast
Paul is our 'go-to' code man. Totally under estimating the complexity of building a website even with templates. Paul stepped in 'understood our needs', advised and got things running more efficiently and smoothly in no time. We are very happy and are looking forward to working with Paul for the foreseeable future on our current and future projects.
Ross
Owner, Yellow Jumper Coffee
Great work - I would recommend without hesitation
Not only did Paul deliver a great site at the front end, but he can also organise the back end that provides the lead information etc. Great communication and quick work even when I kept asking for changes.
Duncan Deaves
Owner, KeyMan Adviser Ltd
Start by securing access - hosting, FTP/SSH, database credentials, source control, and any scheduled tasks or third-party API keys. Then get someone into the codebase to assess it before anything urgent needs changing. The biggest risk isn't the handover itself, it's discovering gaps in access or documentation during an emergency rather than before one.
Look for a developer who can point to experience working in other people's legacy ColdFusion, not just building from scratch. Taking over an unfamiliar codebase is a different skill to greenfield development - it means reading code you didn't write, understanding why decisions were made, and not "fixing" things that aren't actually broken. Murmur8 has been doing exactly this since 2000.
Ask what CF versions and engines (Adobe ColdFusion vs Lucee) they've worked with, whether they've taken over systems they didn't build before, and how they document changes as they go. A developer who can't explain how they'd approach an unfamiliar codebase safely is a bigger risk than the code itself.
It's safe if they treat it that way. The right approach is read before write - understanding the application, checking backups and rollback options, and making small verifiable changes rather than sweeping ones, especially in the first few weeks. Anyone confident enough to make large changes on day one in a system they've never seen is the actual risk.
This depends far more on how well-documented and how tangled the existing codebase is than on its size. A clean, well-structured legacy app can be picked up in days; one with undocumented custom tags, scheduled jobs, and years of quick fixes can take longer to feel confident in. An initial audit is the fastest way to get a realistic estimate rather than guessing upfront.
Paul Helyer is the founder, lead consultant and developer at Murmur8. With over two decades of experience in web development and conversion rate optimization, Paul has helped numerous UK businesses build high-performance websites that generate leads and drive growth.
Murmurate (v.) - The phenomenon where each individual responds only to its nearest neighbours, with no awareness of the whole - and from that purely local behaviour, something fluid, coherent and collectively intelligent emerges.