It really doesn’t need the timer any more. That demo was created when the Web target for Xojo was pretty young and a lot of things loaded oddly.
FWIW, if you purchase ARGen and use it generate UI for web projects it does not use a timer. ARGen, in free mode, lets you generate the ActiveRecord classes and 2 tables at a time (no UI though). Even at 2 tables at a time it’s faster than creating the classes by hand.